Physical review. B, Condensed matter
One-hole excitation spectra of the one-dimensional Hubbard model
Andrzej M. Oleś, Guy Tréglia, D. Spanjaard, Rémi Jullien
Abstract
Exact results for the one-hole excitation spectra of the one-dimensional half-filled Hubbard Hamiltonian are presented. We consider short chains of N=2, 4, 6 atoms and introduce modified periodic boundary conditions which allow us to make a comparison between different N and to extrapolate the results up to infinite chains. By the increasing weight of the scattering states in the one-hole spectrum, we demonstrate a gradual disappearance of the free-electron (band) picture with increasing local electron-electron interaction U. The exact spectra of the N=6 chain verify the results of second-order perturbation theory for U/W1, where W is the bandwidth. The extrapolation to the infinite system, made with the finite-cell-scaling method, gives the gap which agrees rather well with the exact result for U/W>0.2. The average energies and weights of the band and scattering states obtained with this method for an infinite chain do not differ significantly from those of the N=6 chain.